St Martins Pr, August 1999. First Thus. Paper Back. A Parthian shot from one of the most important figures in post-war British fiction, "The King's English "is the late Kingsley Amis's last word on the state of the language. More frolicsome than" Fowler's Modern Usage, " lighter than the "Oxford..... More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1999. Trade Paperback. How do you pronounce affluent: AF-loo-int or uh-FLOO-int? Does it make a difference? Charles Harrington Elster believes that yes, it does make a difference (and that, for the record, one should pronounce the word AF-loo-int). More
Simon & Schuster, September 2000. Trade Paperback. ENTER A GALLERY OF WIT AND WHIMSY As the largest and most dynamic collection of words ever assembled, the English language continues to expand. But as hundreds of new words are added annually, older ones are sacrificed. Now from the author of Forgotten..... More
Penguin Books, 1981. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with moderate wear. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. Dog earred corners pages 121 through 196. More
Perennial (HarperCollins), February 1995. Trade Paperback. In "The Language Instinct," Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, how it evolved..... More
Viking Adult, September 2007. Hardcover. Steven Pinker analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. He shows how we use space and motion as metaphors for more abstracted ideas, and uncovers the deeper structures of human thought that..... More
Gotham, April 2004. Hardcover. We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots..... More
