The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language
By: Keith Kahn-Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point Keith …
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1. The Goblin Emperor
By: Katherine Addison
3.84
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more
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2. Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10; Industrial Revolution, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most impo… read more
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3. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more
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4. Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.98
Format: None pages,
It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Roy… read more
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5. Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
By: Terry Pratchett
3.92
Format: 341 pages, Paperback
Being trained by the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not fit Teppic for the task assigned to h… read more
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"Seven thousand years is just one day at a time"-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"The king nodded. “What are the priests doing about this?"-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something."-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
"Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped."-Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (Discworld, #7)
6. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more
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"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
7. Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.00
Format: 64 pages,
'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revol… read more
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8. The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
By: Guy Deutscher
2.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
Blending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaveswith the science of The Language Instinct, an original … read more
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9. Doomed Love (Great Loves, #1)
By: Virgil , W.F. Jackson Knight
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
Love can be hopeless From the fall of Troy to the deadly Harpies, Aeneas' epic voyage is filled wit… read more
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10. De polyglotta älskarna
By: Lina Wolff
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
Drommen om forstaelse Max Lamas drommer om en alskarinna som talar alla hans sprak. Sokandet tar ho… read more
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11. People of the Book
By: Geraldine Brooks
3.00
Format: 96 pages,
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript throu… read more
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13. Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.34
Format: 376 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is where the dragons went. They lie... not dead, not asleep, but... dormant. And although the … read more
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"Life could be horrible in the wrong trouser of time."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"... a metaphor ... is like lying but more decorative."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
"Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?"-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (Discworld, #8; City Watch, #1)
14. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By: Timothy Garton Ash
4.22
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tel… read more
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16. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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17. A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
By: Edward Chisholm
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more
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18. Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
By: James Vincent
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful to… read more
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19. Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.26
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Mars. The red planet. A new frontier for humanity, a civilization where humans can live in peace, l… read more
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" Jimmy: “What, you’re my goddamn drugs counsellor now, are you?"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Bear Head (Dogs of War, #2)
20. Why Calories Don't Count: How We Got the Science of Weight Loss Wrong
By: Giles Yeo
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A Cambridge obesity researcher upends everything we thought we knew about calories and calorie-coun… read more
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21. The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
By: Viorica Marian
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Sparkles with insight.”—Daniel Pink One of Behavioral Scientist ’s Summer Books of 2023 One of Ne… read more
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- language
22. Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
By: Gaston Dorren
3.80
Format: 361 pages, Hardcover
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it―only one in five peop… read more
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23. The Things We Do to Our Friends
By: Heather Darwent
3.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more
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24. A Chip Shop in Poznań
By: Ben Aitken
3.45
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
'One of the funniest books of the year' - Paul Ross, talkRADIO Not many Brits move to Poland to … read more
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25. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
By: Gretchen McCulloch
4.05
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. … read more
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"Irony is a linguistic trust fall."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"The appeal of having friends in your pocket is unlikely to go away."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"We've had the right to adapt longer than we've had the right to prevent copying."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
26. The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
By: Silvia Ferrara
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Silvia Ferrara's The Greatest Invention is a code-cracking tour around the globe, sifting through o… read more
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27. When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss and Hope from an Expert in Disaster
By: Lucy Easthope
4.31
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Professor Lucy Easthope is the UK's leading authority on recovering from disaster. She's the one th… read more
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28. One More Croissant for the Road
By: Felicity Cloake
3.87
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The nation’s ‘taster in chief’ cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions o… read more
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"God gave us the boulangerie for a reason and that reason is breakfast."-Felicity Cloake, One More Croissant for the Road
29. The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
By: Morten H. Christiansen
4.05
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is p… read more
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- language
"Linguistic order is always at the edge of chaos."-Morten H. Christiansen, The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
30. The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language
By: Keith Kahn-Harris
4.01
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point Keith … read more
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31. Philosophy in 40 ideas: From Aristotle to Zhong: Lessons for Life
By: The School of Life
4.04
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
This book artfully draws together forty of the greatest and most useful ideas found in philosophy, … read more
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