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Life on Volcanoes: Contemporary Essays by Tze Ming Mok; Tui Gordon; Tulia Thompson; Courtney Sina Meredith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing | Reading Level: very good
This showcase of five lively, smart, thoughtful writers promises to be a valuable and very readable contribution to New Zealand's cultural, social and political discourse - housed within a small, covetable, high quality hard-cover book complete with colour illustrations. The contributors are Tze Ming Mo ...Show more
Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation by David Crystal
$25.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it ... There have long been debates about 'correct' pronunciation in the English language, and Britain's most distinguished linguistic expert, David Crystal, is here to set the record straight. Sounds Appealing tells us exactly why, and how, we pronounce ...Show more
The Godzone Dictionary of Favourite NZ Words and Phrases by Max Cryer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
The Godzone Dictionary is a concise A-Z of the words and phrases that make our New Zealand language and speech patterns so distinctive and individual, from Aotearoa and Avondale spiders to Zambuck and Zespri. Slang words and expressions feature heavily, while one of the unique features of this book is t ...Show more
The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes by John Gross (ed.)
$37.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. The dictionary defines an anecdote as 'a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident', and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them are funny, often e ...Show more
Concise Oxford English Dictionary by Oxford Dictionaries
$100.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is a world-famous bestseller, chosen by thousands of users for its up-to-date and authoritative coverage of the English language. It contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, providing meanings for everyday words including scientific and technical vocab ...Show more
Clear Concise Compelling: How to Write Less and Achieve More by Simon Hertnon
$45.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
Eats, Shoots & Leaves showed New Zealanders are interested in the universal issue of poor writing skills; Clear Concise Compelling provides a practical solution in an inviting format. Author and communications consultant, Simon Hertnon, practices what he preaches in his refreshingly clear, remarkabl ...Show more
Berlitz Earworms Rapid Italian
$30.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing | Series: Berlitz earworms
Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex. You will have successfully learned the phrase and have the correct accent ringing in your ears. Listen a few times to be able to ask fo ...Show more
501 Great Writers : A comprehensive guide to the giants of literature by Julian Patrick
$35.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
Entertaining and informative, this collection of brief, informal biographies spans the centuries from Sophocles in ancient Greece to Harper Lee in Americaas Deep South. Along the way, readers will enjoy pithy biographical sketches of existentialists Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, French satirist Vol ...Show more
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms by Gordon Jarvie
$30.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
From credit crunch to golden parachute, barking up the wrong tree to storm in a tea cup in this book, Gordon Jarvie explains all you need to know about these and 3,000 other common English idioms. Packed with nuggets of fascinating information, the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Idioms traces the origins of ...Show more
Penguin Shakespeare - Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
$16.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
A peerless general is offered the consulship of Rome after his triumph over the city of Corioles. Too proud to respect the will of the people, however, he soon finds himself despised by the mob, and speaks out passionately against popular rule. Driven from the city as a traitor, he allies himself with h ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Word Histories by Fred McDonald
$35.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing
Compiled by Fred McDonald, this new book traces the origins and explains the meanings of approximately 15,000 words. Words with similar ancestry or semantic development are cross-referenced or subsumed into one entry, making comparisons easier for the reader. There is also a short introduction explainin ...Show more
Brilliant French Pack by Pauline Swanton
$40.00 NZD
Category: Language / Writing | Series: Brilliant
The Brilliant series concept is all about fast learning and making the complex simple in the quickest time possible. It is about being outcome focused; concentrating on what you need to know and do to make a difference. It gives plenty of examples and is practical rather than theoretical. It's about put ...Show more
