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A Brief History of the Spanish Language Summary
A Brief History of the Spanish Language
by David A. Pharies 2007 248 pages
3.86
146 ratings
Language
Linguistics
History
Greek to Me Summary
Greek to Me
Adventures of the Comma Queen
by Mary Norris 2019 240 pages
3.63
2.1K ratings
Travel
Memoir
Greece
Woe Is I Summary
Woe Is I
The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
by Patricia T. O'Conner 1996 240 pages
3.94
4.5K ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student Summary
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
by Edward P.J. Corbett 1965 562 pages
4.18
424 ratings
Writing
Philosophy
Education
Clean Language Summary
Clean Language
Revealing Metaphors and Opening Minds
by Wendy Sullivan 2008 160 pages
4.10
215 ratings
Leadership
Psychology
Communication
The Third Ear Summary
The Third Ear
by Chris Lonsdale 2006 184 pages
3.75
139 ratings
Language
Psychology
Linguistics
The Unfolding of Language Summary
The Unfolding of Language
An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
by Guy Deutscher 2005 368 pages
4.22
3.9K ratings
Linguistics
Language
History
The Art of X-Ray Reading Summary
The Art of X-Ray Reading
by Roy Peter Clark 2016 288 pages
4.04
963 ratings
Writing
Books About Books
Education
It Was The Best Of Sentences, It Was The Worst Of Sentences Summary
It Was The Best Of Sentences, It Was The Worst Of Sentences
A Writer's Guide To Crafting Killer Sentences
by June Casagrande 2010 226 pages
4.14
1.6K ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
Dreaming in Chinese Summary
Dreaming in Chinese
Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
by Deborah Fallows 2010 208 pages
3.63
2.2K ratings
China
Language
Travel
Proust and the Squid Summary
Proust and the Squid
The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
by Maryanne Wolf 2007 308 pages
3.85
8.0K ratings
Science
Psychology
Education
Shortcut Summary
Shortcut
How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas
by John Pollack 2014 256 pages
3.72
289 ratings
Business
Psychology
Communication
The Psychology of Language Summary
The Psychology of Language
From Data to Theory
by Trevor A. Harley 1995 624 pages
3.78
131 ratings
Linguistics
Psychology
Language
One Hundred Names for Love Summary
One Hundred Names for Love
A Memoir
by Diane Ackerman 2011 336 pages
3.85
1.8K ratings
Memoir
Biography
Biography Memoir
Spanish for Dummies Summary
Spanish for Dummies
by Susana Wald 1999 397 pages
3.64
446 ratings
Language
Spanish Literature
Reference
How to do Discourse Analysis Summary
How to do Discourse Analysis
A Toolkit
by James Paul Gee 2010 224 pages
3.94
103 ratings
Linguistics
Reference
Language
Grammar for a Full Life Summary
Grammar for a Full Life
How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us
by Lawrence Weinstein 2020 213 pages
3.90
637 ratings
Writing
Language
Personal Development
Language Hacking Guide Summary
Language Hacking Guide
by Benny Lewis 2010 129 pages
3.64
166 ratings
Language
Reference
Linguistics
Have You Eaten Grandma? Summary
Have You Eaten Grandma?
by Gyles Brandreth 2018 256 pages
3.93
1.1K ratings
Language
Writing
Humor
Language in Thought and Action Summary
Language in Thought and Action
by S.I. Hayakawa 1939 224 pages
4.22
1.3K ratings
Language
Linguistics
Psychology
A World Without "Whom" Summary
A World Without "Whom"
The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
by Emmy J. Favilla 2017 311 pages
3.72
485 ratings
Language
Writing
Reference
How to Write a Sentence Summary
How to Write a Sentence
And How to Read One
by Stanley Fish 2011 165 pages
3.48
3.3K ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers Summary
Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers
Over 2,300 Emotive, Evocative, Descriptive Synonyms, Antonyms, and Related Terms Every Writer Should Know
by David Olsen 2013 450 pages
4.01
139 ratings
Writing
Reference
Dictionaries
Becoming a Translator Summary
Becoming a Translator
An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation
by Douglas Robinson 1997 320 pages
3.68
122 ratings
Linguistics
Language
The Meaning of Everything Summary
The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester 2003 288 pages
3.99
5.2K ratings
History
Language
Biography
Short Stories in French for Beginners Summary
Short Stories in French for Beginners
by Olly Richards 2018 252 pages
4.06
1.1K ratings
France
Short Stories
Language
The Secret Life of Words Summary
The Secret Life of Words
English Words and Their Origins
by Anne Curzan 2012 36 pages
4.37
498 ratings
Language
Linguistics
History
Damn Fine Story Summary
Damn Fine Story
Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative
by Chuck Wendig 2017 240 pages
4.37
1.3K ratings
Writing
Crafts
Reference
Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Summary
Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses
by Frederick William Hamilton 2011 47 pages
3.71
164 ratings
Reference
Language
Between You & Me Summary
Between You & Me
Confessions of a Comma Queen
by Mary Norris 2015 240 pages
3.61
6.4K ratings
Memoir
Writing
Language
Like, Literally, Dude Summary
Like, Literally, Dude
Arguing for the Good in Bad English
by Valerie Fridland 2023 336 pages
3.84
832 ratings
Language
Linguistics
Writing
Rebel with a Clause Summary
Rebel with a Clause
Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
by Ellen Jovin 2022 400 pages
3.99
1.1K ratings
Language
Writing
Linguistics
Introducing Linguistics Summary
Introducing Linguistics
A Graphic Guide
by R.L. Trask 1996 180 pages
3.90
976 ratings
Linguistics
Language
Philosophy
Beginnings, Middles & Ends Summary
Beginnings, Middles & Ends
by Nancy Kress 1992 149 pages
3.99
2.5K ratings
Writing
Reference
Crafts
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes Summary
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes
by Jack M. Bickham 1992 117 pages
3.78
1.0K ratings
Writing
Reference
How To
Polyglot Summary
Polyglot
How I Learn Languages
by KatΓ³ Lomb 1970 216 pages
3.82
1.4K ratings
Language
Linguistics
Education
Plot Summary
Plot
by Ansen Dibell 1988 170 pages
3.89
879 ratings
Writing
Reference
Research
Science and Sanity Summary
Science and Sanity
An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics
by Alfred Korzybski 1933 927 pages
4.41
378 ratings
Philosophy
Science
Psychology
But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"? Summary
But Can I Start a Sentence with "But"?
Advice from the Chicago Style Q&A
by University of Chicago Press 2016 112 pages
4.27
127 ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts Summary
1,000 Awesome Writing Prompts
by Ryan Andrew Kinder 2014 111 pages
3.72
412 ratings
Writing
Reference
Self Help
The Writer's Idea Thesaurus Summary
The Writer's Idea Thesaurus
An Interactive Guide for Developing Ideas for Novels and Short Stories
by Fred White 2014 320 pages
3.88
114 ratings
Writing
Reference
Language
Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch Summary
Vex, Hex, Smash, Smooch
Let Verbs Power Your Writing
by Constance Hale 2012 400 pages
3.97
262 ratings
Writing
Language
Reference
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