The Book of Babel - Words and the Way We See Things by Nigel Lewis
$14.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: good-very good
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer C. Brewer; Ivor H. Evans
$14.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
The F-Word - The complete history of the word in all its robust and various uses by Jesse Sheidlower (ed.)
$6.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
We all know what frak, popularized by television's cult hit Battlestar Galactica, really means. But what about feck? Or ferkin? Or foul--as in FUBAR, or Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition? In a thoroughly updated edition of The F-Word, Jesse Sheidlower offers a rich, revealing look at the f-bomb and its i ...Show more
Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought - Ideas that Shaped the World by Kenneth McLeish (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Ideas have spurred the way to human progress, from the earliest cave dweller to the latest frontiers of computers and technology.
Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature by Bruce A. Rosenberg (Editor); Mary Ellen Brown (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
This work is an award winning compendium of authors, concepts, motifs, characters, themes, works, and movements associated with folklore and literature from around the world. Long before the written word existed, humans expressed themselves by telling stories. Handed down through centuries, these storie ...Show more
New Zealand English by Allan Bell (ed.); Koenraad Kuiper (ed.)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Linguistics | Reading Level: very good
New Zealand English is a significant landmark in our knowledge of this country's language. It offers major theoretical contributions and new approaches to the wider study of language variation, change and development. New Zealand's distinctive variety of the English language, which is closely bound u ...Show more
Capricorn Rhyming Dictionary by Bessie Redfield
$12.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Series: Perigee Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Lists words that rhyme with hundreds of vowel sounds from a to yx, and briefly explains a variety of poetic terms.
Speak by Tore Janson
$10.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Charts the rise of some languages and the fall of others, explaining why some survive and others die. This book shows how languages change their meaning, shape, and sounds, and how the history of languages is intimately linked to the history of people.
Straight from the Fridge, Dad - A Dictionary of Hipster Slang by Max Décharné
$8.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Much of the slang popularly associated with the hippie generation of the 1960s actually dates back before World War II, hijacked in the main from jazz and blues street expressions, mostly relating to drugs, sex, and drinking. Why talk when you can beat your chops, why eat when you can line your flue, an ...Show more
The Fight for English - How language pundits ate, shot, and left by David Crystal
$10.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Lynne Truss's 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' injected new life into the long-standing arguments over rights and wrongs in English usage. Now David Crystal brings together his own distinctive style and unique expertise to provide the first thorough-going assessment of the ongoing debate. With a lively, humoro ...Show more
Q and Eh - Questions and Answers on Language with a Kiwi Twist by Laurie Bauer; Dianne Bardsley; Janet Holmes; Paul Warren
$14.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: good-very good
Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where does 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thin ...Show more
In the Paddock and on the Run: The Language of Rural New Zealand by Dianne Bardsley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
This is the first book to explore the rich heritage of language the rural sector has generated. For two hundred years people have come from all over the world to work in New Zealand's rural enterprises. From this linguistic melting pot, which includes the addition of indigenous Maori words, phrases and ...Show more