Linguistique

“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers “At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that...

In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure, and the downright surprising....

In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

Benny Lewis, who speaks over ten languages—all self-taught—runs the largest language-learning blog in the world, Fluent In 3 Months. Lewis is a full-time "language hacker," someone who devotes all of his time to finding better, faster, and more efficient ways to learn languages. Fluent in 3...

Learn how a single tongue spoken 150,000 years ago evolved into the estimated 6,000 languages used around the world today....

When Geppetto makes a wooden puppet of a little boy, he is astonished when the puppet comes to life....

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

Phaedrus lures Socrates outside the walls of Athens, where he seldom goes, by promising to share a new work by his friend and mentor, Lysias, a famous writer of speeches....

Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence....

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison - a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world...

“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the...

A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

"Flappers and Philosophers" was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories...

This unforgettable children’s classic has been captivating children and adults alike for almost a century....

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....

From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne...