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  • Asya Pereltsvaig The best books about how language works that even a linguist enjoys reading Book cover of Words on the Move Book cover of Pronouncing Shakespeare Book cover of Impossible Languages Book cover of Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power Book cover of The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar
  • Clare Williams The best books on how we use metaphor and how metaphor uses us Book cover of Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate Book cover of Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language Book cover of I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World Book cover of Metaphors We Live By Book cover of Metaphor and Thought
  • Paul Thagard The best books on metaphor Book cover of Metaphors We Live By Book cover of The Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry Book cover of Metaphor and Thought Book cover of Metaphor Wars: Conceptual Metaphors in Human Life Book cover of The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure
  • Eve V. Clark The best books to nourish curiosity about language Book cover of How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die Book cover of Words of Wonder: Endangered Languages and What They Tell Us Book cover of Aspects of Language Book cover of A History of Psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomskyan Era Book cover of Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction
  • Robin Reames The best books that will transform how you think about language Book cover of Orality and Literacy Book cover of Metaphors We Live By Book cover of Course in General Linguistics Book cover of Exhalation Book cover of On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse
  • David Crystal The best books about words and their history Book cover of Words in Time: A Social History of English Vocabulary Book cover of Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics: Modern Idioms and Where They Come from Book cover of The Life of Guy: Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Unlikely History of an Indispensable Word Book cover of Four Words for Friend: Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever Book cover of A History of Foreign Words in English
  • Asya Pereltsvaig The best books about how human language works Book cover of The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Book cover of The Atoms Of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules Of Grammar Book cover of What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be Book cover of The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages Book cover of Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power
  • Tony Sandy The best books on honest communication and realistic insight into language usage Book cover of Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior Book cover of Games People Play Book cover of Saussure For Beginners Book cover of Seeing Voices Book cover of Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency
  • Randy C. Dockens The best science fiction stories of amazing worlds Book cover of Dune Book cover of Edge of Oblivion Book cover of Stories of Your Life and Others Book cover of The Star Wars Trilogy Book cover of The Eye of Minds
  • Ai Jiang The best books to read for a glimpse at humanity Book cover of Never Let Me Go Book cover of Lilith's Brood Book cover of Stories of Your Life and Others Book cover of Flowers For Algernon Book cover of 1984
  • Karen Falconer The best books on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that really explain what it’s all about Book cover of Who's Flying Your Plane?: How to master the controls of your life Book cover of NLP at Work: The Difference that Makes the Difference Book cover of Next Generation Entrepreneurs: Live Your Dreams and Create a Better World Through Your Business Book cover of Neuro-Linguistic Programming: A Critical Appreciation for Managers and Developers Book cover of mBraining: Using your multiple brains to do cool stuff
  • Roger Ellerton The best books on neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) Book cover of From Coach to Awakener Book cover of NLP at Work: The Difference that Makes the Difference Book cover of Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence Book cover of Get the Life You Want: The Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming Book cover of The Really Good Fun Cartoon Book of NLP: A Simple and Graphic(al) Explanation of the Life Toolbox That Is NLP
  • Kristin Cashore The best books with mysteries—and solutions—you never saw coming Book cover of My Sister, the Serial Killer Book cover of Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything Book cover of Miss Pym Disposes Book cover of Stories of Your Life and Others Book cover of The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau
  • Carol T. Kulik The best books for making work a better place to be (when you aren’t the big boss) Book cover of You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation Book cover of CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age Book cover of Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict Book cover of I-deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves Book cover of Rocking the Boat: How Tempered Radicals Effect Change Without Making Trouble
  • Yang Ye The best books to understand China, and its people and civilization Book cover of The Cambridge Illustrated History of China Book cover of The Arts of China Book cover of The Art of Chinese Poetry Book cover of Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China Book cover of Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington’s Chinese Garden
  • Owen W. Knight The best accessible first contact sci-fi novels Book cover of The Three-Body Problem Book cover of Solaris Book cover of Stories of Your Life and Others Book cover of The Midwich Cuckoos Book cover of The War of the Worlds
  • Jennifer Saul The best books on how manipulative language stokes racism Book cover of The Language of the Third Reich Book cover of The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality Book cover of The Everyday Language of White Racism Book cover of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class Book cover of Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics
  • Mario Barbatti The best books where reality dissolves into strangeness and wonder Book cover of One Hundred Years of Solitude Book cover of The Trial Book cover of Stories of Your Life and Others Book cover of The Nine Billion Names of God Book cover of Axiomatic: Short Stories of Science Fiction
  • Anna Campbell The best classic historical romance novels Book cover of Faro's Daughter Book cover of Lord of Scoundrels Book cover of The Proposition Book cover of A Countess Below Stairs Book cover of Flowers from the Storm
  • Kees Dorst The best books to transform your thinking Book cover of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Book cover of The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action Book cover of Metaphors We Live By Book cover of The Search for Meaning Book cover of Learning to Change
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